Die for cutting shoe-uppers



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B. W. 'GEARY.

DIE FOR CUTTING SHOE UPPERS.

No. 279,375. Patented June 12,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BAILEY IV. GEARY, OF BROOKTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DIE FOR CUTTING SHOE-UPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,375, dated June 12, 1883. Application filed March 5, 1883. (No model.)

resented in the accompanying drawings, of

Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a bottom view, and Fig. 3 a vertical and longitudinal section, of a cutting-die provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented. The die is to facilitate the cutting of what are termed rights and lefts in shoe-work, whether such be quarters or soles, or various other parts of a shoe. Fig. 4 denotes a set of rights and lefts of the kind made or cut by the die, shaped as shown at A in the drawings.

This die has two opposite cutting-edges, a I), one of which rests against the lower surface of a bearing-block, B, and is held thereto by a yoke, C, and by means of a clamp-screw, D, which, provided with a head, 0, extended from a handle, E, in manner as represented,

screws into the'yoke at its middle, the said yoke extending through the die at its opposite ends, as shown. By unscrewing the screw the die may be reversed or turned over upon the block so as to bring downward the cuttingedge previously against it, and thus it will be seen that with the implement as made the die is adapted for use in cutting of either rights or lefts, a pair of which of one kind is shown in Fig. 4.

To use the implement, it is to be forced, cutting-edge downward, upon a sheet of leather or other suitable material, so as to cut through I do not claim separate cutters adapted to opposite sides of and combined with a revoluble stock, as shown in the United States Patent No. 27,123, as I have a single cutter provided with two opposite cutting-edges, as set forth, and within and adapted to such cutter, as described, I have a yoke and a screw for securing it to a bearing-block, all of which differs materially from anything shown in such patent.

A cutting-die having upper and lower cutting-edges and rigidly fastened to a brace arranged within such die, and also having a handle capable of being inserted in the brace from either side of it, differs materially from any cutting die which has a bearing-block for one of the cutting-edges to rest against, and the knife is borne up to such block by the screw of the handle and by the yoke which turns.

freely in the die.

I claim The combination of the reversible cutter adapted to cut at either of its two opposite edges, the bearing-block, for one of such cutting-edges to rest against, the yoke arranged within and going through the said cutter, and finally the clamping-screw going through and bearing against the block and screwed into the yoke at its middle, the cutter being revoluble 011 the yoke, and all being arranged in manner and to operate substantially as set forth.

BAILEY \VHITE GEARY. Witnesses:

ELIOT L. PACKARD, V. H. ORowNINsHIELn. 

